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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. -- Ugo Betti

Author: Betti, UgoEra: 1892

Liberation is not deliverance. -- Victor Hugo

Author: Hugo, VictorEra: 1802

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. -- John Adams

Author: Adams, JohnEra: 1735

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. -- Horace

Author: HoraceEra: -65

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. -- John Stuart Mill

Author: Mill, John StuartEra: 1806

March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us. -- Barry O'Meara

Author: O'Meara, BarryEra: 1786

Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. -- George Bernard Shaw

Author: Shaw, George BernardEra: 1856

freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. -- Bertrand Russell

Author: Russell, BertrandEra: 1872

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. -- Baruch Spinoza

Author: Spinoza, BaruchEra: 1632

freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. -- Archibald Macleish

Author: Macleish, ArchibaldEra: 1892

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. -- George Washington

Author: Washington, GeorgeEra: 1732

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra: 1803

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -- Abraham Lincoln

Author: Lincoln, AbrahamEra: 1809

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. -- Thomas Paine

Author: Paine, ThomasEra: 1737

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. -- Oliver Cromwell

Author: Cromwell, OliverEra: 1599

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. -- Edmund Burke

Author: Burke, EdmundEra: 1729

People demand freedom only when they have no power. -- Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Author: Nietzsche, FriedrichEra: 1844

The traveller has reached the end of the journey! -- The Dhammapada

Author: Dhammapada, TheEra: -300

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it. -- Will Rogers

Author: Rogers, WillEra: 1879

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. -- William Jennings Bryan

Author: Bryan, William J.Era: 1860

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -- Thomas Jefferson

Author: Jefferson, ThomasEra: 1743

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. -- Jean-Paul Sartre